China-Africa

Understanding the Belt and Road Initiative

Understanding the Belt and Road Initiative

By Nnanda Kizito Sseruwagi Probably you have heard about it. Probably not. What is it? Let us first understand what it isn’t. Many initiatives from China suffer from being misunderstood, even at the highest echelons of policy experts around the world. This is due to the saturation in public media internationally by Western propaganda and […]

Four Decades and 800M People Out of Poverty: Lessons From China’s Poverty Alleviation Approach

Four Decades and 800M People Out of Poverty: Lessons From China’s Poverty Alleviation Approach

George Musiime At the dawn of African independence, Kwame Nkrumah is quoted to have said “Seek ye first the political Kingdom and all else shall be added unto you.” However, as reality has proved to us, whereas political freedom might have been a necessary condition for Africa’s economic freedom, some analysts contend that this was not necessarily […]

China-Uganda’s Win-Win Cooperation is Bearing Fruits

China-Uganda’s Win-Win Cooperation is Bearing Fruits

By Akech Sarah Elias In international relations and foreign policy, diplomacy is considered to be a major catalyst for good relations of countries and a step-in introduction and implementation of social-economic development projects of a country. Like in human beings, good cooperation and relations among countries which is always characterized by effective diplomacy, international relations […]

THE TRUE CHINA

THE TRUE CHINA

By Moshi Israel What is the true China? This is a question that is asked frequently by many, both elites and ordinary citizens from all walks of life all around the world. The China question is an important one since the country has a history spanning millennia and has consistently existed in global discourse, playing […]

China’s Belt And Road Initiative is Good for Uganda and the Region at Large

By Steven Akabwayi “Uganda and China have established deep-rooted and unshakable political mutual trust that have seen remarkable achievements in bilateral Economic Cooperation” These were President Museveni’s remarks in 2019 in an interview with People’s Daily an official Newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). After approving the national vision statement […]

The third phase of the South-South Cooperation: A new chapter of partnership between China, Uganda and FAO

The third phase of the South-South Cooperation: A new chapter of partnership between China, Uganda and FAO

By Shemei Ndawula The people of the People’s Republic of China as well as the people of Uganda have got a striking similarity which; as I have come to notice, has been largely under looked in most Sino-Ugandan (African) studies. We as Africans call it Ubuntu; the belief that the individual is an inherent part […]